Books set in Burkina Faso (6)
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Et pourquoi pas ailleurs by Micheline Duff FR
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
"Mélanie Deslauriers pensait faire un simple voyage en Afrique, à explorer la savane et à rencontrer des gens. Elle découvre plutôt sa vocation dans l’aide humanitaire : et pourquoi pas ailleurs? Allègrement, elle décide alors de repartir, cette fois vers le Burkina Faso, où elle séjournera deux ans et consacrera toutes ses énergies à porter secours aux démunis et à semer l’espoir auprès de ce peuple candide et proche de la nature."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
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Of Water and the Spirit—Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malidoma Patrice Somé EN
Country: Africa / 
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Description:
Maliodoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village, however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, where he remained for the next fifteen years, being harshly indoctrinated into european ways of thought and worship. The story tells of his return to his people, his hard initiation back into those people, which lead to his desire to convey their knowledge to the world. Of Water and the Spirit is the result of that desire; it is a sharing of living African traditions, offered in compassion for those struggling with our contemporary crisis of the spirit.
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Ritual : Power, Healing and Community by Malidoma Patrice Some EN
Country: Africa / Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Description:
In this remarkable book, Malidoma Some explores the essential role ritual plays in the maintaining of the community, and makes a convincing case that a lack of ritual in the Western world is a fundamental reason that the fabric of society is unravelling.
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Self-Portrait in Green by Marie NDiaye EN
FranceDescription:
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Se... continue
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